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Time To Split

2008-04-28 11:48

by Cliff Corcoran

It's cold and rainy in Cleveland with a chance of snow (!), but the Yanks aren't scheduled to return there this season, so they'll likely make every attempt to get the game in, much like they did on their final day in Chicago, when rain twice interrupted the game and ended Phil Hughes night after just two innings.

Mike Mussina will be the man contending with the elements tonight. Moose is coming off the gem he twirled against the Chisox when he had unusually good movement on his non-curve pitches. He and the Yankee hitters will be facing 23-year-old lefty groundballer Aaron Laffey. Laffey was reliably average in his nine starts for the Tribe as a rookie last year. He lasted five or more innings in all but one start (and four innings in the exception) and allowed no more than four runs in any of those five-plus-inning starts (he allowed five runs in the four-inning outing). Tonight will be his first time facing the Yankees.

Laffey is the third of five lefty starters the Yankees are facing in a six-day span. In the first two of those games, Joe Girardi has radically rearranged his lineup, leaving some of his best hitters on the bench, and received four runs of total offense as a result. Resting Bobby Abreu I understand, as Abreu's the one left-handed Yankee hitter who really struggles against his own kind. Using the opposing lefty as an excuse to rest the struggling Robinson Cano I also understand. Sitting Hideki Matsui for two straight days just because there's a lefty on the mound I do not understand.

Prior to sitting out the last two games, Matsui was riding a seven-game hitting streak during which he had hit .318/.516/.500. On his career, Matsui has hit a respectable .293/.359/.448 against lefties. He is 0 for 9 with a walk in his career against C.C. Sabathia, so I understand Giardi's reasoning for sitting Matsui yesterday, but if that was the plan, he should have started Hideki on Saturday. Tonight, Matsui's back in the lineup, but Johnny Damon is sitting out. Damon is hitting .433/.485/.800 over his last seven games with two homers and five doubles. On his career, Damon has hit .286/.349/.404 against lefties. Against lefties the last two days he's gone 5 for 9 with two of those doubles. I just don't understand resting the team's hottest hitter when the offense has sputtered for three straight days.

Shelley Duncan and Morgan Ensberg combined to reach base once in 12 plate appearances over the last two games. Duncan, who was the guy who got on base, sits tonight. Ensberg plays third as Girardi uses the DH to protect Alex Rodriguez's tender quad.

Catcher Chris Stewart arrives from Scranton to take Jorge Posada's spot on the roster tonight. A career .253/.314/.361 hitter in the minors, Stewart is your typical generic backup catcher. A big fella, the 6-foot-4 Stewart is a 26-year-old career minor leaguer who spent most of his career in the White Sox's system after being drafted by Chicago in the middle rounds of the 2001 draft. After hitting .264/.314/.393 in his first full year at triple-A in 2006, he was traded to the Rangers and actually opened the season as the back-up on the major league roster. He hit .243/.300/.297 in 17 games (11 starts) before the Rangers bought Adam Melhuse from the A's in early June and optioned Stewart to triple-A, where he remained for the rest of the season, hitting a similar .242/.294/.333. In 15 games for Scranton this year, Stewart has hit .300/.404/.375, walking seven times against just one strikeout.

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2008-04-28 14:07:09

1. EdB

My question: How does one have a lower Slugging % than OBP%?

2008-04-28 14:10:42

2. Cliff Corcoran

1 It's not actually that hard. If you walk a fair amount but hit mostly singles, you'll do it.

2008-04-28 14:12:15

3. tommyl

1 You get a few walks and you hit only singles. Slugging doesn't take into account walks. The more interesting one is when players OBP is lower than their average, which occurs becaues OBP counts sacrifices as PA.

2008-04-28 14:17:44

4. EdB

Ahh I see if your walk to XBH ratio is pretty high. Thanks for clearing that up.

2008-04-28 14:23:54

5. Cliff Corcoran

4 That's a better way of phrasing it. Yes, as per Matsui's line above, which clearly has a fair amount of extra-base knocks, but a ton of walks (actually, in his case, a bunch of walks and HBPs).

2008-04-28 14:48:17

6. OldYanksFan

People... did I read the last thread correctly that Posada is expected out for 30 days? This was just guesswork as he hasn't had a new MRI yet?

At this point, 30 days seems doable. I mean, thats 16% of the season... a good chunk but not horrible. It could be a lot worse, yes?

So... how 'educated' a guess is 30 days?

2008-04-28 14:49:56

7. Cliff Corcoran

Make that six lefties in seven days. The Yanks open their series against the Mariners by facing Erik Bedard (see updated sidebar).

2008-04-28 14:53:15

8. Cliff Corcoran

6 Right now we really don't know anything. Thirty days is essentially where Will's placing the over/under. It's a best guess by a guy who knows his stuff, but we don't know more about Posada's injury that we did yesterday. If I knew he'd come back at full strength, I'd sign up for 30 days right now. That is to say, my gut is taking the over right now.

2008-04-28 14:59:24

9. OldYanksFan

Well, here in sunny NH it's 45d and raining, miserable and.... wet. Humidity at 93% (imagine!)

Yahoo's forcast for Cleveland:
Tonight: Cloudy with a few showers. Snow may mix in late. Low 38F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

2008-04-28 15:26:42

10. Mattpat11

Is David Cone sitting in front of a TV that says Cone Vision?

2008-04-28 15:50:25

11. weeping for brunnhilde

I am so fucking sick of rain and rain delays and rainouts and games on Fox.

Tonight of all nights (just because of my mood) I really want to just sit down and watch a baseball game, no questions asked.

Hmph.

2008-04-28 15:57:01

12. williamnyy23

This game could be a blowout win, blowout loss or anything in between. There have been a lot of games with that feeling so far, which clearly isn't a good thing.

2008-04-28 16:00:50

13. Mattpat11

well, here we go.

2008-04-28 16:09:56

14. rbj

Well, the rain bypassed Toledo today, at least so far. The word "snow" was in the forecast, but now that looks doubtful.

Has anyone put a claim on Moeller? I can imagine the Red Sox doing that just to screw with the Yankees.

2008-04-28 16:10:59

15. weeping for brunnhilde

All right, now Melk just needs to advance to second on a wild pitch or by some other means so we can strand him in style, as is our wont.

2008-04-28 16:11:09

16. Mattpat11

Nice start

2008-04-28 16:11:27

17. williamnyy23

Why does Jeter keep swinging at the first pitch??

2008-04-28 16:12:03

18. williamnyy23

14 If they waste a 40-man spot on him, they'd be screwing themselves.

2008-04-28 16:12:55

19. Mattpat11

"deep center field" about 25 feet in front of the wall.

2008-04-28 16:13:08

20. weeping for brunnhilde

All right, Melky gets to third.

Please, please, please let's see to it he scores.

Don't strike out, Alex, please.

2008-04-28 16:13:33

21. Mattpat11

Just in the air Alex.

2008-04-28 16:14:08

22. Mattpat11

Perhaps I should have clarified.

2008-04-28 16:14:18

23. weeping for brunnhilde

I can't take it.

Is it that hard to score a run?

2008-04-28 16:14:47

24. Mattpat11

The Yankees have their Cleveland batboy. He's not sweeping yet though.

2008-04-28 16:14:54

25. OldYanksFan

21 Does that count?

2008-04-28 16:14:58

26. williamnyy23

If Arod is going to revert to 2006 form and Posada is out for a long period of time, this team is not making the playoffs.

2008-04-28 16:15:40

27. OldYanksFan

G-Bomb coming....

2008-04-28 16:15:44

28. Mattpat11

strike one looked like ball 2.

2008-04-28 16:16:11

29. Mattpat11

25 see 22

2008-04-28 16:16:33

30. weeping for brunnhilde

Damn it.

Good rip, Jason.

2008-04-28 16:16:39

31. rbj

Dang, and that looked like a promising inning.

2008-04-28 16:16:40

32. Mattpat11

well there you go.

2008-04-28 16:16:45

33. rsmith51

Apparently, ARod should have batted 5th tonight.

2008-04-28 16:17:28

34. OldYanksFan

If Moose has movement on his ptches tonight, I feel a Win coming.

2008-04-28 16:18:13

35. williamnyy23

The crime of that inning is not that they didn't score one run, but that they didn't score 2 or 3. With Mussina pitching, early runs are very important. This team seems incapable of jumping out to a big lead.

2008-04-28 16:18:31

36. Mattpat11

34 if

2008-04-28 16:20:53

37. Mattpat11

84 mph

2008-04-28 16:22:24

38. Mattpat11

I think Mussina is throwing an 81 mph change

2008-04-28 16:22:28

39. williamnyy23

Uh oh...with this zone, Moose is going to have a fit.

2008-04-28 16:24:33

40. Mattpat11

nice pitch there.

2008-04-28 16:25:33

41. weeping for brunnhilde

Oh my God.

Did you see that 0-2?

Terrible location.

He's lucky it was just fouled off.

2008-04-28 16:25:55

42. weeping for brunnhilde

Ooooh!!

Beautiful curve!

Nice job, Mike!

Nice pitching.

2008-04-28 16:26:01

43. rbj

Ooh, nice inning by Moose

2008-04-28 16:26:03

44. Mattpat11

Beautiful pitch there.

2008-04-28 16:30:51

45. weeping for brunnhilde

Anyone see any signs from Cano?

2008-04-28 16:31:18

46. weeping for brunnhilde

At least he didn't bounce to second there, I guess.

2008-04-28 16:32:25

47. RIYank

Jeez, I go to get some potato chips, I miss an entire half inning.

2008-04-28 16:33:25

48. williamnyy23

The Yankees are continuing the disturbing trend of hacking away. I honestly think that is the biggest reason this team has struggled all season. Unlike last year when the offense was feast or famine early on, this year it has been consistently mediocre (4 or fewer runs 15 times!!!).

I am not sure what's behind this trend, but Girardi and Long must emphasize the patient apporach that has fueled this offense in the past.

2008-04-28 16:34:10

49. weeping for brunnhilde

Mike's curve is really working today.

2008-04-28 16:36:03

50. weeping for brunnhilde

I don't feel good about him going up and in like that with an 86mph fastball

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2008-04-28 16:37:08

51. OldYanksFan

48 I must agree completely. It seems impossible, but in 82 ABs, Jeter has TWO walks. ARod has 6 BBs in 89 ABs. Abreu has 7 BBs in 96. For those three, those are BAD numbers.

2008-04-28 16:38:21

52. williamnyy23

51 I would like to see the pitches/AB too because it's not like the pitchers are attacking them. Instead, it seems like everyone is up there hacking at the first pitch.

2008-04-28 16:38:32

53. Mattpat11

Bad throw by Cano.

2008-04-28 16:38:37

54. weeping for brunnhilde

Nice.

Let's get Mike some runs, how 'bout?

2008-04-28 16:39:27

55. rbj

OK, I'm confused. Neither the good Moose nor the bad Moose from the evil parallel universe has a goatee. How are we supposed to tell them apart?

2008-04-28 16:39:28

56. RIYank

Welp, that heater had a good result. Faced the minimum now, right?

2008-04-28 16:40:52

57. RIYank

55 You can generally tell by the attitude, if not the base runners.

2008-04-28 16:42:02

58. OldYanksFan

An 86mph fastball, well placed, augmenting a 'curve that is really working', is far better the 98 MPH over the plate (see: Farnsworth, Kyle). If Moose's slow slop is working, 86 MPH on the corner is very effective.

I'd rather have Joba, but there are a number of guys with 'no' fastball who are league average or better.

2008-04-28 16:42:24

59. weeping for brunnhilde

Has Molina hit since returning from injury?

2008-04-28 16:43:28

60. weeping for brunnhilde

58 Agreed, wholeheartedly. A couple of them just seemed too close for comfort, is all. But he's gotten away with them so far, so, yeah, nice job.

2008-04-28 16:44:26

61. rbj

57 Ah.

2008-04-28 16:46:01

62. RIYank

I feel like Laffey doesn't have control of his change. Our guys should be sitting on the slider.

2008-04-28 16:46:47

63. OldYanksFan

55 Good Moose has a less exaggerated smirk.

2008-04-28 16:47:59

64. williamnyy23

I wont keep beating the horse, but in that inning alone, Molina swung at a 1-0 pitch out the zone and then Melky swung at a 2-0 pitch that was a ball. If both men remain patient, you are looking at a rally. It's one thing when the results are bad, and another when the approach is. Right now, the Yankees approach is bad.

Also, with CC throwing 8, the bullpen is ready to cover 4+ innings. The Yankees should have put some crooked numbers up against Laffey, but instead are relying on Moose to be perfect. Should he give up 3 runs in 6, everyone will lament his performance, but the reality is the Yankees should be able to win this game (and a few others earlier in the year) going away.

2008-04-28 16:48:08

65. Mattpat11

we're being no hit

2008-04-28 16:49:42

66. weeping for brunnhilde

Uh oh, here we go.

Suck it up, Mike!

2008-04-28 16:49:55

67. williamnyy23

When Jeter plays to an OPS+ of 80, his defense becomes enfuriating.

2008-04-28 16:53:11

68. weeping for brunnhilde

Don't get cute, Jason.

Just make the play.

2008-04-28 16:53:31

69. williamnyy23

That throw should have gone to 3B, except Giambi can't throw.

2008-04-28 16:53:53

70. RIYank

Hmm, that was a smart bunt, I think.

2008-04-28 16:53:58

71. weeping for brunnhilde

Nice change there.

2008-04-28 16:54:05

72. Mattpat11

Probably a bad time to have a pitcher that doesn't K people

2008-04-28 16:54:14

73. weeping for brunnhilde

Another one.

0-2.

2008-04-28 16:55:08

74. williamnyy23

70 With the Yankees offense and a rested bullpen, 1 or 2 runs is very big in this game, so yes, it was a smart bunt.

2008-04-28 16:55:16

75. weeping for brunnhilde

Ooooh!!!

Nice, Mike!!!

Nice!!

2008-04-28 16:55:37

76. RIYank

This is Good Mike. In case there was any question.

2008-04-28 16:56:14

77. weeping for brunnhilde

0-1, curve.

Come on, Mike!

2008-04-28 16:56:19

78. RIYank

74 Yeah, also, Michaels is not a good hitter.

2008-04-28 16:59:36

79. Mattpat11

not liking this AB

2008-04-28 17:00:40

80. OldYanksFan

One of the most painful parts of being a Yankee fan in the last few years was the Ghost-of-Bernie era. The thought of Jeter being in decline is scary. 2 years of GOJ will be horrible to witness.

Wasn't Derek listening when ARod said he would have an MVP year?

2008-04-28 17:00:41

81. randym77

C'mon, Moose. Just one more...

2008-04-28 17:01:03

82. Mattpat11

Good job Moose!

2008-04-28 17:01:10

83. RIYank

Tremendous. Though not exactly efficient. Six innings?

2008-04-28 17:01:19

84. rbj

Yes! Good Moose!!

2008-04-28 17:01:21

85. OldYanksFan

It's cool the way Jason makes these routine plays exciting... yes?

2008-04-28 17:01:51

86. williamnyy23

Moose picked up his awful offense and lousy fielding by Jeter...but not before stone hands tried to dig the hole deeper. This team worries me.

2008-04-28 17:01:51

87. weeping for brunnhilde

God, fucking Giambi.

Get him out of there. Two plays in this inning that he actually made and still my heart nearly stopped.

It's stressful watching him out there, almost as bad as Knoblauch used to be.

2008-04-28 17:02:14

88. Mattpat11

83 49 through three IP could be worse.

2008-04-28 17:02:23

89. JimCobain

80 Jeter has to much Dimaggio in him to let his skills erode. I think Jeter walks away with some gas still left in the tank.

Very nice job by Moose that inning.

2008-04-28 17:03:08

90. randym77

Does anyone know what the minor league "suspended" and "restricted" lists are?

I noticed the Mariners put Bronson Sardinha on the suspected list, then released him. Did they just not need an outfielder in their minor league system, or does being put on the suspended list mean he did something bad?

2008-04-28 17:04:01

91. RIYank

88 I know, but it means no more than six innings.

2008-04-28 17:04:49

92. Mattpat11

91 He can pitch a 13 pitch 4th and be right back on track.

2008-04-28 17:04:52

93. randym77

90 Arrgh. Suspended list, not suspected list. :-P

2008-04-28 17:05:08

94. Mattpat11

Get a god damned hit

2008-04-28 17:07:27

95. weeping for brunnhilde

Yes!

Beautiful foul out to the catcher on the first pitch!

Way to swing, sticks!

2008-04-28 17:07:30

96. Mattpat11

we're going to be no hit tonight. The team looks bored.

2008-04-28 17:07:31

97. williamnyy23

Sure seems like the Yankees are ready to get on that plane. Tonight's effort is deplorable.

2008-04-28 17:08:00

98. dianagramr

Hey .... the Giants are moving their $126 million man to the bullpen! Wheee .... can you say .... Denny Neagle .... Mike Hampton .... Wayne Garland?

2008-04-28 17:10:28

99. rbj

98 So we can actually say Cashman was smart in not signing Zito.

2008-04-28 17:11:26

100. Mattpat11

99 And then he turned around and signed Igawa

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2008-04-28 17:12:42

101. Mattpat11

Nice hook.

2008-04-28 17:13:44

102. williamnyy23

David Cone has a very nice vocabulary, and unlike Michael Kay, he uses words in the proper context.

2008-04-28 17:14:05

103. rbj

100 Shhh, besides, that was less than half of Zito.

2008-04-28 17:15:30

104. Mattpat11

so much for a 13 pitch inning

2008-04-28 17:16:35

105. williamnyy23

Laffey has 46 pitches through 4 innings. That's pretty pathetic.

2008-04-28 17:16:44

106. Mattpat11

did that say 88 mph?

2008-04-28 17:17:57

107. randym77